From the editor

Kamran Abbasi

MMR and the value of word of mouth in social networks
J R Soc Med 101(5): 215-216; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.101005 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorial

Jonathan Emery-Barker, Iain McClure, Alison Wood, Rachel Robertson, and Helen Minnis

Bypassing bureaucracy to answer important questions quickly
J R Soc Med 101(5): 217-218; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080046 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Letter

Peter Davies

Flamingos? Nowt like that round here
J R Soc Med 101(5): 219; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080051 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sean O'Kelly

Evidence based management
J R Soc Med 101(5): 219; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080052 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Donald W Light

NHS culture depends on enlightened leadership and aligned incentives
J R Soc Med 101(5): 219-220; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080053 [Full Text] [PDF]  

John Grimley Evans

Ockham's razor
J R Soc Med 101(5): 220; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080076 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark Aitken

Hospital ownership
J R Soc Med 101(5): 220; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080083 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susan Green

Medical progress depends on animal models – doesn't it?
J R Soc Med 101(5): 220-221; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080087 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Simon Festing

Medical progress and animal models: the importance of evidence
J R Soc Med 101(5): 221; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080091 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essay

Franklin G Miller and Ted J Kaptchuk

The power of context: reconceptualizing the placebo effect
J R Soc Med 101(5): 222-225; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070466 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Francisco López-Muñoz, Cecilio Álamo, and Pilar García-García

Psychotropic drugs in the Cervantine texts
J R Soc Med 101(5): 226-234; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070269 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Series

Tom Jefferson and Lucia Zarra

Bufale Spotting, part 10: assessing a journal
J R Soc Med 101(5): 235-236; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2007.070219 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research

Jill West, Kyle Perrin, Sarah Aldington, Mark Weatherall, and Richard Beasley

A case–control study of seated immobility at work as a risk factor for venous thromboembolism
J R Soc Med 101(5): 237-243; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070366 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lesley Henderson, Christopher Millett, and Nicki Thorogood

Perceptions of childhood immunization in a minority community: qualitative study
J R Soc Med 101(5): 244-251; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070363 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Mark A Westwood, Laurence M Nunn, Calum Redpath, Peter Mills, and Tom Crake

Applicants regard structured interviews as a fair method of selection: an audit of candidates
J R Soc Med 101(5): 252-258; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2007.070155 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Grand round

Peter Alwyn Bodkin, Md Faizul Hassan, Philip John Kane, Nick Brady, and Ian Roger Whittle

‘Surgical’ causes of benign intracranial hypertension
J R Soc Med 101(5): 259-261; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070386 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

Leonard Sinclair

Recognizing, treating and understanding pernicious anaemia
J R Soc Med 101(5): 262-264; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.081006 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Podium

David J Coffey

The veterinary profession
J R Soc Med 101(5): 265-266; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080026 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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